[wlug_org] [Fwd: Website IP address change coming]

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <20060410113624.0f2872a7.don at dis.org.nz>, Donald Gordon writes:
>>[What if Evil Donald steals Donald's brain, and he won't let Wellylug
>> use the domainname any more...]
>
>If people think it's especially important, I could give the domain's
>UDAI to someone.  This is effectively (as I understand it) the magic
>password that allows it to be transferred to some other registrar.  I
>don't know if they expire or anything; someone more familiar with the
>SRS may be able to answer that.

The UDAI does allow the domain to be transferred to another registrar.
It also often allows maintaining details of the zone registration (eg,
nameservers) -- depending on the registrar of course.

The UDAI doesn't expire, but it will be regenerated in various
circumstances, such as changing the name/address details of the holder
of the domain (even typo fixes, the assumption is that a change
implies a new person).

So having the UDAI is useful if you're merely unavailable, but "UDAI
escrow" (which is what you're talking about) isn't really a defense
against people turning bad.

The "fix" to this problem is for Wellylug to become an entity in its own
right (ie, incorporated) which can hold things, like a domain name, in
its own name.

>From my point of view such a fix to a non-existant problem (ie, I've
seen no evidence of an Evil Donald twin...) isn't needed at this point.

Ewen